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July 2-8, 2012

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! A 21-year-old male was arrested on the charge of burglary in the 2000 block of North Neil Street at Macy’s around 6 p.m. Thursday. According to the report, the suspect was caught attempting to steal jewelry from the store. The suspect, of Urbana, was arrested. ! A 36-year-old male was arrested on the charge of public urination in the 500 block of West Marketview Drive at the Wingate Hotel around 8:30 p.m. Thursday. According to the report, the suspect, of Champaign, was issued a notice to appear in court for public urination. ! A theft was reported in the 2600 block of West Springfield Avenue at Country Brook apartments around 3:15 p.m. Wednesday. According to the report, two unidentified male suspects stole two video surveillance cameras from the building. ! A 43-year-old male was arrested on multiple charges of burglary from a motor vehicle and retail theft in the 200 block of South Market Street at Christie Clinic around 8:20 a.m., and in the 100 block of West Green Street at a CVS Pharmacy around 4 p.m. Thursday, respectively. According to the report, a maintenance van owned by the medical facility was entered by force. The suspect, of Champaign, stole spools of wire from the vehicle. He was located and arrested. Later that day, the same suspect was arrested for stealing a watch from CVS. ! A 25-year-old female was arrested on the charge of retail theft in the 2600 block of North Prospect Avenue at Walmart Super Center around 1:30 p.m. Thursday. According to the report, the subject, of Champaign, concealed merchandise in a shopping bag and exited the store without trying to pay. She was arrested and issued a notice to appear in court.

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! A 23-year-old male was arrested on multiple charges of possession of a controlled substance and retail theft in the 1800 block of Philo Road at County Market around 11:30 p.m. Friday. According to the report, the offender, of Champaign, entered the grocery store, concealed an item and attempted to leave without paying. During the search incident to arrest, the officer located multiple prescription pills, a white powdery substance and another person’s property. ! A 25-year-old male was arrested on multiple charges of fleeing the police, operating an uninsured vehicle and possession of cannabis in the 1800 block of South Philo Road around 4 a.m. Saturday. According to the report, the offender was operating a vehicle which was observed pulling out of a parking lot where a shots fired investigation was taking place. An officer proceeded to try and stop the suspect, but he refused to stop. The vehicle and offender were later located in two different locations. The vehicle was impounded and the offender, who had a substance suspected to be cannabis in his pants pocket, was arrested.

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President Designate Robert Easter sits on a bench outside the President’s House in Urbana. Easter officially began his two-year term as president of the university on Monday, July 1.

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July 2-8, 2012

BIG MAN ON CAMPUS Campus veteran Robert Easter takes over as University President

BY RYAN WEBER MANAGING EDITOR

At the University of Illinois, the bumpy road in the rearview mirror twists and turns through several campus- and University-level scandals, but the road that lies ahead may at last be one that is smooth and straight, or so faculty and administrators hope. With the official start of President Robert Easter’s term on Sunday, University of Illinois administrators are hoping to finally see the stability it has been lacking for several years. Easter dropped his president-designate title, which he has held for just over three months, as he transitioned into his two-year term as president of the University. The Board of Trustees approved his appointment as president-designate in March, directly following the sudden resignation of former University president Michael Hogan. Several members of the Urbana campus faculty called for Hogan’s resignation in February, citing his lack of leadership ability based on a series of emails between the former president and Chancellor Phyllis Wise. The faculty members were not pleased with Hogan’s treatment of Wise in the emails regarding proposed changes to admissions and enrollment management. The emails revealed the pressure Hogan placed on the chancellors of the three campuses to agree to his enrollment management plan, despite faculty members’ fear of a loss of campus autonomy and individual culture. Toward the end of his tenure, the way Hogan handled the University’s interests and administration certainly was not favorable by many faculty members. The sentiment is largely the opposite with Easter, and Wise said that he is quite prepared

to take over as president. “Now that (Easter) has been appointed president, he has a great understanding of the president vis-à-vis the chancellor, which is part of what makes him so wonderfully qualified to take over this role,” Wise said Thursday. Wise said she has known Easter for the last three years while she was serving as the interim president at the University of Washington, so she doesn’t see any significant challenges in the future with Easter. She met him when he played the role of interim vice chancellor for research at the University. Because Easter served as dean of the college of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, interim provost, interim vice chancellor for research and interim chancellor, Wise believes he knows the campus well enough to be president. In a May interview with The Daily Illini Editorial Board, Easter expressed that, although he was familiar with the Urbana campus, he didn’t “know the Chicago campus or the Springfield campus very well,” but especially the Chicago campus because of the high expenditures associated with the hospital. Since then, he says he has a better grasp of all three campuses. “I feel like I have learned a tremendous amount about the other two and even more about the Urbana campus,” Easter said. “That is the dynamic nature of this job.” He said he has made progress at better understanding the administrative level at the University. More importantly, it was key for him to get to know the chancellors at the other two campuses. The chancellor-president relationship might prove to be somewhat difficult for Easter because he previously served as interim

chancellor, a position he held just before Wise filled it in 2011. “I believe that she is the leader and speaks on behalf of the campus,” Easter said. “Hopefully I can resist the temptation because I know it so well.” According to both Easter and Wise, they have enormous respect for each other. Easter said they have rarely butted heads because they both understand what it takes to be a top tier research university. Should their relationship take a turn for the worse, something both believe to be unlikely, their primary focus would still be on the students and the quality of education that they believe the University provides them. The transition of presidents from Hogan to Easter is not expected to be directly felt by students either, and the change should be seamless, said David Pileski, student trustee, because Easter has already been involved in so many decisions. Renee Romano, vice chancellor for student affairs, said she believes something similar. “Students would only be affected in a positive way because, having worked with President Easter when he was a chancellor here, he cares deeply about students having a good experience here,” Romano said. Albeit students are engaged in one of the largest activity bases in the country, Pileski said, most students are not readily engaged in the happenings of their campus’s administration. Wise suggested that this is beneficial because then students are not being distracted by the president-chancellor relationship, which she said doesn’t directly affect students. As far as students, it now seems the only major point of contention Easter will be facing in the next year or two is mitigating the

quickly rising cost of tuition. “We are taking a significant reduction in state funding this year, but we will manage,” Easter said. For the faculty and staff at the University, Easter said pension reform concerns him considerably because the University must remain competitive in the benefits offered to employees to keep attracting and retaining the best. “The reality is that the state has difficult financial problems to solve,” he said. He is working to maintain open communication lines with all faculty and staff, something that Wise called “critically important.” Wise said Easter will stay in tune with the campus through her and that it is her responsibility to “give him a sense of the pulse of the campus.” Pileski is looking forward to the coming year as well because he sees the transition as an opportunity for him to reduce the red tape that confronts students when they want to address a grievance they have with administration. He says that because Easter has worked so closely with students throughout his career, finding ways for students to navigate through the complex university bureaucracy will be easier. “We are really fortunate to have Dr. Easter,” Pileski said. “I am more hopeful about getting stuff accomplished than I was a year before.” Amid all of the scandal and troublesome circumstances among University administrators and leaders, the University remained strong, producing good work and research, Romano said. “Despite the fact that there has been a transition in leadership, and there were some bumps in the road in terms of leadership, this institution is excellent and solid in terms of faculty,” Romano said. “We are a solid university.”

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University students to feel effect of health care act Affordable Care Act could provide advantages to students, says former McKinley director BY NORA IBRAHIM DESIGN EDITOR

Graduating students may end up jumping hurdles in a challenging job market, but the Supreme Court’s decision on Thursday to uphold President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), means students and young job hunters may enjoy the benefits of the reformed law. The 5-4 ruling held that individual mandate, which requires all persons to hold some form of health insurance, is constitutional. Parts of the law, such as inclusion of young adults under 26 years old in their parents’ health care plan, have already been implemented since the act went into effect in 2010. Prior to the Affordable Care Act, many health care policies removed children from their coverage because of their age, leaving many graduating students uninsured. According to Claudia Lennhoff, executive director of Champaign County Health Care Consumers, the youth is the demographic with the highest rates of being uninsured.

This group of uninsured 18- to 29-year-olds is referred to as the “young invincibles” by the health care industry. The term is meant to label the youth who won’t buy insurance because they believe they can not get sick or will live forever, Lennhoff said. “They say you aren’t going to get these people to buy insurance. I think, generally, people in that category have the lowest wages and often are working low-wage jobs that don’t offer insurance,” she said. “It’s not necessarily that they think they’re invincible. It’s just out of their reach.” Dr. David Lawrence, former medical director of McKinley Health Center, said student health insurance costs may increase in the next years because the University’s insurance provider, United Healthcare, will have to take on more risk. But it’s not likely to be a big difference. Premium costs increased from $206 per semester in the 201011 academic year to $219 in 2011-12. “Before, (costs) were concentrated on one person with a pre-existing condition,” Lawrence said. “Now, it

will be spread across.” However, not everyone shares the belief that the ACA will alleviate costs of health care. Despina Batson, president of College Republicans at UIUC, said the ruling opens doors to steep increases and uncertainty for businesses, which would lead to slower hiring or layoffs. “This ruling should concern every student at the University of Illinois who wants a job after graduation,” Batson wrote in an email. “The ruling also institutes a $500 million middle class tax increase. With entry level jobs already making it tough to pay rent, car payments, and student loan payments, we should fear what this means when we graduate.” Batson also said the court’s ruling affirmed $2.6 trillion in new spending. “We’re already watching the leaders in the federal government run up a $15 trillion debt, Illinois already passed the largest tax increase in the history of our state, and now Washington wants to add even more taxes and spending? When does it stop?” she asked.

Lennhoff said the penalty, which taxes an uninsured individual with 2 percent of their income, may not motivate everyone to find insurance, but it “gives the people the opportunity to make a rational decision.” “There’s the carrot, and there’s the stick; the stick is the tax penalty, which, being at 2 percent, is rather small,” Lennhoff said. Although the funding of the new health care system is still a point of contention, there are other benefits that students at the ChampaignUrbana campus may take advantage of when the law goes into full effect in 2014. For example, Lawrence said students can be offered reimbursements for the costs of immunizations, including the meningitis vaccination, and contraception will be provided at no cost through the McKinley Health Center. Lennhoff added that women can have their annual pap screen and breast examinations without providing a co-pay at the time of visit. Arguably one of the most important parts of the ACA that was

upheld by the Supreme Court is making it illegal if health insurance companies drop customers for pre-existing conditions, also called recission. Lennhoff added that this section of the health care reform law took effect two years ago and is meant for consumer protection. Prior to 2010, students with pre-existing conditions would be up against a “cap,” or a maximum amount that the health insurance company would pay. “I actually knew students who were diagnosed with cancer who used to be against the cap while they were studying at the U of I,” Lennhoff said. “Now, they cannot place annual caps on health insurance, even on student insurance.” The individual mandate may not affect University of Illinois students very greatly because the University has required its students to hold some form of health insurance for at least two decades, either through another company or via the University, Lawrence said. However, uninsured students in college nationally will likely be entering the market looking for the best insurance plan.

Music festival moves to Champaign, beats weekend heat BY KYLE MILNAMOW SOCIAL MEDIA DIRECTOR

Neither heat nor rain could take down the 5th annual Blues, Brews and BBQ festival hosted in downtown Champaign this weekend. Put together by Jeff Grant and Perry Davidson of Fluid Events — an event company that has helped with festivals such as the Urbana Sweet Corn Festival and the Pride Festival — Blues, Brews and BBQ once again saw a rise in numbers, even though they changed their venues from downtown Urbana to downtown Champaign this year. “My partner and I always wanted to have the blues festival be something very similar to like a Memphis in May, or a New Orleans Jazz festival type thing where you always have all the bars and the businesses doing something along with the festival, and it was just not happening the way we wanted it to happen in Urbana,” Grant said. “Before we made our move, we went and we talked to a lot of businesses, a lot of people in Champaign to see how they would receive it first. From there, we kind of gaged the feedback, and we knew it was going to be positive right away.” The temperatures reached into the 100s on Friday, and Grant said the festival was slow when it started at 5 p.m. But once the sun went down, the festival started bringing in a crowd. Grant reported that this year, the festival made more money Friday than in years past on the same day. Blues, Brews and BBQ, which began in

2008 as a way to celebrate the 175th birthday of Urbana, has been growing in numbers every year. Grant said this year’s festival “doubled their vendors in terms of merchandise and information,” while they kept the same number of food vendors. Different vendors aren’t the only new thing the festival brought this year. Along with a second main stage that was located behind the main stage, it also featured a new motorcycle show that had three different categories, each with a $500 prize, “the largest cash prize in the state of Illinois at this point” Grant said. The winners were chosen by judges, and an additional $200 went to the audiences favorite contestant from all three categories. “Those were two huge elements that we always wanted to do,” Grant said. “And it wasn’t that we didn’t have enough room to do those things in Urbana, but the situation here and the layout were much more feasible for us to do the things that we need to do without spending a ton of money on extra generators and power.” The festival took up large sections of Walnut and Neil streets starting at Main Street. Though there was no admission required at the gate, there was a $5 suggested donation that went to keeping the festival going for next year and to the Twin City Derby Girls team. “This is our first year ever being involved with the festival,” said Jodi Thomas, skater

representative of the Twin City derby girls’ board of directors. “We received the offer to volunteer at the gates, helping collect donations, (and) in return, we get 10 percent of the proceeds at the gates for our organizations.” Another different aspect of the festival was the layout in downtown Champaign. Last year, the vendors were set up in a circular format, facing each other. This year, the set up was a line of vendors that included everything from barbecue to massages. “It’s just different for me,” said Jean Rasner owner of Po’ Boys, a barbecue restaurant in Urbana. “Before, where we were, we could see a lot more of things, but because we’re only on the end, we can only see the NewsGazette building. It would be nicer for me, personally, to see more things, but I could take a break and walk around.” Though both days featured weather that can often hurt a festival, heat seemed to play a big factor for some vendors. Kelly Jo Lamb, owner of Piato in Champaign, was making her second appearance at the festival due to a really good response last year. “The heat really hurt us (Friday), I think.” Lamb said. “I wouldn’t want to eat hot barbecue when it was 100 degrees out ... (Saturday) was a little damper with the rain, but it picked back up.” Although the weather was hot and muggy, Grant was confident they would still surpass their goal of having 35,000 guests.

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Ronnie Baker Brooks, lead singer and guitarist of the Ronnie Baker Brooks band performs on the Miller Beer and WGKC Main Stage at the Blues, Brews and BBQ Festival in downtown Champaign on Saturday.

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July 2-8, 2012

‘Freedom Writer’ addresses first-year teachers

Manuel Scott talks with first-year teachers about ways to improve classroom environment BY JEFF KIRSHMAN COPY CHIEF

“I want to warn you. Some of you already know this, but some of you may not,” the man in the gray suit and red tie addressed the room. “I talk about some things that might make you a little uncomfortable. I’m going to cover some things that might upset you a little bit. They might even offend you. But I want you to know that I’m sharing these things because, first, they’re true. But more importantly, I think these things will help you become more warm, more sensitive and more effective leaders of young people.” Manuel Scott, whose story is told in the book and subsequent movie adaptation “Freedom Writers,” was the keynote speaker at the Illinois New Teacher Collaborative third annual “Y2: Moving Beyond Survival” conference that took place June 26-27 at the I Hotel and Conference Center in Champaign. The conference was designed and planned by new teachers, for

new teachers and was expressly designed to give teachers the chance to learn, network and reflect on their first years in the classroom, according to a written message from Dr. Chris Higgins, director of the Illinois New Teacher Collaborative. More than 125 teachers from throughout the state registered to participate in the conference. The two-day event featured an extensive syllabus that included “Hot Topics Breakout Sessions” relating to humanities, knowledge, innovation and excellence. The types of breakout sessions ranged from “Text it, Type it, Make it: Moving from Novelty to Practicality,” to “Comic Book Project: Getting Reel,” to “Classroom Management.” The conference was sponsored in part by the Illinois State Board of Education, the College of Education at the University of Illinois and the State Farm Companies Foundation.

Scott spoke for a little over an hour on the second day of the conference. His speech covered harrowing details of his past while sprinkling in moments of comic relief. He grew up in California without the presence of his father, who was in jail for much of Scott’s life. He dropped out of school at 14 and at one point was classified as an English as a Second Language student despite speaking no other languages. But in his junior year at Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, Calif., he was taught by a 23-year-old English teacher named Erin Gruwell, who helped Scott and his classmates exceed academically when everyone else had given up on them. Tamra Neal, a second grade teacher at Hope Academy in Decatur, Ill., said she found the conference, particularly Scott’s speech, beneficial. “It was motivating,” said Neal, who also said the speech brought

her to tears. “It makes me want to go back and help kids like his teacher helped him. When I get back home, I’m going to share it with my principle and maybe we can have (Scott) speak at our school.” Neal referred to Hope Academy as an “inner-city school” and said she dealt with a situation in the same vein as some of the stories Scott shared. One of her students, she said, was taken from her mother because her mother had abused her. “You never know when those kids leave you, what they’re going home to — or what they’re not going home to,” Neal said. Scott made a point of saying that situations like the ones he was in, are not unique to certain areas or social classes. “Don’t make the assumption that the things I’m talking about are unique to the inner city,” he said. “Don’t make the assumption that the things I’m going to cover are

unique to a particular group of students. I am on the road about 150 days out of the year, and I’m in wealthy districts, poor districts, white districts, black, Mexican and everything in between.” Choosing Scott as the keynote spekaer was fitting, considering that many first-year teachers often work in underprivileged communities. Liz Charlton, who teaches at Metamora Grade School in Metamora, Ill., vividly recalls her first day as a teacher. “I remember standing up in front of one my classes and saying, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m not a student anymore. I’m a teacher.’ It was kind of in your face and intense.” While her first-day jitters are behind her, Charlton said opportunities like the Illinois New Teacher Collaborative are of value because she hasn’t completely developed as a teacher. “It hasn’t happened yet,” Charlton said. “I’m still learning.”

Lincoln Hotel set to reopen next month BY KAREN CHEN WEB PRODUCER

The historic Urbana Landmark Hotel, also known as the Lincoln Hotel, will open in late August. The Urbana Landmark Hotel was renamed to stress its historic significance to the community. Local architect Joseph W. Royer built the original Tudor-style building in the 1920s, and Jumer’s hotel brand constructed a Bavarian-style addition in the early 1980s. Lincoln Square, attached to the hotel’s lobby, was one of the earliest indoor malls in United States. The combination of the two landmarks, New Lincoln Square Village, was added to the National Register of historic places in 2006. However, it closed its business in 2009 due to mortgage issues. Xiao Jin Yuan is now the owner and directs the hotel’s renovation project. The second floor of 45 rooms is ready for its new customers. “The mirror on the wall is the only thing we saved from the old rooms,” Yuan said while pointing at the bronze-framed mirror on the wall in one of the rooms. “We added 32-inch flat screens in every room, and wireless Internet will be available, too.” Customers tend to think that the original floral bed sheets are dirty and don’t feel comfortable with them, Yuan said, speaking from his experience in hotel management.

“We also changed the old bed sheets to white ones to make it look more modern,” he said. The library will be transformed into a restaurant and a catering area for guests. The hotel’s basement was a conference center and will be used as an entertainment room when the hotel reopens. “This could also be a bar for students or faculties who want to hold events here,” Yuan said. Renovation will continue on the third and fourth floor after the hotel opens. Yuan did not say an exact time when the hotel would be completely renovated. On June 18, the Urbana City Council approved the revised agreement with Yuan that a reimbursement of $400,000 will be available before the hotel’s August opening. Since the council’s approval on this landmark renovation project in late 2010, $650,000 has been reimbursed to Yuan. The total of $1.05 million, committed so far, comes from a special tax increment finance (TIF) district fund that aims to help renovation projects such as this one. “The building was in a rough shape when Mr. Yuan took over,” said Thomas Carrino, Urbana’s economic development manager. The funds have provided financial support for Yuan to replace the roof as well as fix broken and leaking pipes for the hotel. It also will help build a newer, brighter and more capacious hotel lobby with marble flooring and skylights.

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A suit of armor gathers dust in a dilapidated lobby of the former historic Lincoln Hotel, now the Urbana Landmark Hotel. “It’s an interesting property that provides a unique experience for travelers,” Carrino said. “We want to restore it to be an operating hotel in downtown Urbana,” said Urbana

Mayor Laurel Prussing. “It will revitalize Lincoln Square.” Prussing also stressed the importance of the historic significance of Lincoln Square and the hotel in this renovation project.

July 2-8, 2012

Illinois alumna goes from MSNBC to HBO BY JEFF KIRSHMAN COPY CHIEF

Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, Sam Waterston and the majority of the cast of HBO’s “The Newsroom” aren’t journalists in real life; they just play ones on TV. But for Margaret Judson, that’s not quite the case. Judson, who graduated from the University in 2008 with a degree in broadcast journalism, made her acting debut last Sunday as the character Tess Westin on the television series “The Newsroom.” Created by esteemed TV writer and Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin, the series presents a behind-the-scenes look at a fictional cable news show. As a student, Judson was a member of the sorority Chi Omega, worked as lab monitor at Richmond Studio, the campus bar KAM’S and The Daily Illini. She was a research assistant for Keith Olbermann at MSNBC before meeting Sorkin in April of 2010. Much of the media’s focus was on the BP oil spill at the time, which drives the plot in the show’s pilot episode. The Arlington Heights, Ill., native recently took the time to discuss, among other things, her unconventional path to Hollywood, her role on the show, the polarizing reviews the pilot received, the state of journalism and what it’s like working with Sorkin.

The Daily Illini: When did the show first appear on your radar? Margaret Judson: I first knew about the show when I was working at MSNBC and Aaron Sorkin came to shadow our team. He was starting to think about writing the pilot, doing his research. I had the job that day of showing him around and filling him in on how our things worked and just answered any questions he needed help with. At that point, I didn’t think that I would be a part of the show at all beyond him coming in that day. But he kept asking me questions through emails, and it kind of turned into a consulting job. He asked me to be a consultant. And when he was done with his first draft of the pilot, he let me see it. He sent it to me, and there was a character named Margaret Jordan. And it was a character that I really related to. So it turned into me asking for an audition.

DI: That’s a suspicious coincidence with the name of that character.

MJ: Yeah, I had never been interested in acting before, but it was the name and her position and just kind of the way he wrote her. It was something that I was really, really into, and I just wanted to be a part of it. So I asked for an audition.

DI: Who is Tess Westin?

MJ: Tess Westin is an associate producer on News Night with Will McAvoy, and she helps the segment producer, she pitches stories. She has a nice relationship with Will, but she’s one of the lower-level staffers on the show.

DI: Did you come up with a background story for her? Some character actors have been known to

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create entire backgrounds when they’re trying to shape how they play their role.

MJ: Yeah, and it was pretty easy for me because I had that job. I try to be really true to what Aaron writes, and he’s really good about giving us information about our characters and making it very clear. That was part of the thing I read, the pilot. You see in the first draft of the pilot that he’s an amazing writer. He makes it very easy for the actors. He’s really great to work with. He gives us a lot of that, and the rest of it was really easy for me to fill in because I’ve lived that life.

DI: It’s one thing to act on a show without prior acting experience, and it’s another thing to be on an HBO show that has 2.1 million viewers with the pilot. That has to be pretty exciting.

MJ: Did you read the email that Aaron sent me? Because that’s pretty much word for word what he said. When I asked for the audition, he pretty much told me no. And he was like, ‘It’s really nice, but it doesn’t exactly work that way. Just because you have a job in real life in a newsroom doesn’t mean you can play one on TV.’ It’s different. But he liked the role, and he was really true to a real newsroom atmosphere, which was the main thing. And it feels really natural and normal. I’m a little nervous for my next job when I’m not playing the character of what I used to do.

DI: You have a brief role in the pilot. Are you going to get more airtime as the show continues? MJ: I hope so. I’m in every episode, but I’ve only seen the pilot. So I can’t say for sure. I haven’t seen any other episode. But I’m in every episode, so hopefully my stuff shows up there after it’s been edited.

DI: So are you officially an actress now? You have an IMDB page and everything.

MJ: I don’t know what would qualify as being officially an actress, but I’m working as one. Definitely. It’s a really amazing job. It’s really fun. I feel like there’s a lot of overlap with journalism and a lot of things that made me interested me in journalism I find in acting and writing. So it’s nice to see that overlap and be a part of the storytelling but now in a different way.

DI: More specifically, how does that overlap exist?

MJ: I think journalism is a lot about understanding people and stories and how people act in stories and in circumstances and kind of analyzing that. So journalism is a form of storytelling in a more matter-offact way. But when I was leaving MSNBC, a producer said to me, and I’ll never forget it, he was like, ‘You can find greater truth through fiction.’ Because we can tell truth in journalism in one medium, and then we can get truth through fiction. Through acting, writing and storytelling. And I think it’s all important in this society and culture, and you can tell the same story in different ways

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An excavator carries away rubble from what used to be Garner Hall on Thursday. Demolition began on Wednesday. The construction of a new dorm in the same spot is another step in University Housing’s, multimillion dollar plan to replace all of the dorms in the Ikenberry Commons. and understand situations in a full scope.

DI: Compare the show “The Newsroom” to actual newsrooms that you’ve worked in.

MJ: What’s really awesome is that everybody stayed really true to how a real newsroom works. All of the news stories that Aaron uses really happened. Obviously it’s a fictionalized circumstance, and it’s not based on — a lot of people think it’s based on Keith Olbermann, and it’s not — it’s a complete fictional world. But there are a lot of lines that you can draw to real life, and they stay absolutely true to that on set. Even the lingo. That was what I was there for a lot: Looking at the show’s culture and saying if people would go about it a certain way and the kind of lingo they would use. Tweak something a little bit because we wouldn’t necessarily say it that way. We would say it this way instead.

DI: The reviews for the show have been pretty polarizing. There was a bit of a backlash, and then there was a backlash to the backlash. Have you been paying attention to the media’s response?

MJ: I have been paying attention. I love that people are talking about it, whether it’s good or bad or somewhere in the middle ... It’s great. How it gets people fired up either way is amazing, for it to mean something to people. I was surprised by the negative reviews because I didn’t really think anyone was saying anything bad about the content. I felt like the bad stuff came from news people who felt like it wasn’t the way they would do things. But I don’t really think that was the point. So the negative reviews don’t really bother me a lot. It was nice that these people, like you said, there was a backlash to the backlash. It was nice to not even have to say anything to defend it that was prompted by us.

DI: Dan Rather reviewed the show for Gawker and said, ‘There is a newsroom authenticity to what’s presented and much that gets to the heart of modern American journalism’s problems.’ It’s a

battle, he said, that is ‘being lost in almost every newsroom.’ What are your thoughts on the state of journalism in that sense?

MJ: It’s fine if you have an informative newscast, but if nobody’s watching because they’re not that interested in watching and they’re not entertained, then what good are you doing? I think that’s the constant battle and a core idea that we’ll cover throughout this season. You can’t demagogue the issue and just say that it’s just this way, why don’t you just simply put out a newscast that’s interesting and informative and also entertaining? There are a lot of shows that go into that, and I think it’s a concern of people in that industry. And just kind of acknowledging that it’s a big job, and you can go into any work environment and say, ‘Well, it would be better if you guys didn’t do it this way.’ But that’s not always realistic. There are a million things that go into it, and it’s a really important job. It’s important to always strive to do it well, and I think that’s what this show is about. It’s taking a look at how that all comes together. And it’s also a show about the people in the newsroom and their relationships with each other with the politics and broadcasting all mixed in. I think what you said earlier is really true, that a lot of people were looking at it as kind of a statement on how broadcasters should do their jobs, and I think we’re making the point that it’s a tough job to do.

DI: What have your experiences working with Aaron Sorkin been like?

MJ: Oh, Aaron is the best to work with ... It’s in his blood. He’s just a good writer by nature, so everything he writes is really nice. Everybody on the show is really amazing. The actors, the crew people, the writers, the producers, the directors — everybody’s really great, Aaron especially. And I obviously have a very special place in my heart for Aaron Sorkin because he hired and believed in me and wrote me into every episode. And we’re friends now. I just think the world of him.

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America swoons over best-seller “50 Shades of Grey” not greatest romantic read SARAH FISCHER Opinions columnist

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Score one for President Obama; US on right track P

resident Barack Obama’s health care bill, the American Care Act, also known as Obamacare, represented a victory for the President. The Supreme Court upheld the bill Thursday, stating the individual mandate — the part of The Daily Illini Editorial Board the bill that requires Americans to purEditorials reflect the majority opinion of the chase health care or face a fine — was con- board, which comprises: stitutional as a tax, which Congress has Samantha Kiesel, editor-in-chief; Ryan Weber, the power to levy. managing editor; Eliot Sill, assignment editor; Obama had been pushing the law to be Steven Vazquez, assistant assignment editor; Melissa McCabe, photo editor; Nora Ibrahim, passed not as a tax but under the Comdesign editor; Jeff Kirshman, copy chief; Karen merce Clause, which allows Congress to Chen, web producer; Kyle Milnamow, social media regulate interstate commerce. director This single piece of legislation is one of the most influential and yet controversial bills to pass in recent history, and it was perhaps one of the most scrutinized. It was a surprise that it was even upheld because there were only four justices who tend toward the liberal side and five who tend toward the conservative side, until Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. voted alongside the four liberal-leaning justices. For many in the United States, the act is definitely a step in the right direction to obtaining universal health care, but the country is still far behind most of the other developed or industrialized nations of the world, including Canada or back across the pond to the United Kingdom. Certainly, the act is not a perfect bill. Even Obama has said so. But America is at last catching up to its counterparts around the globe. For a nation that spends nearly $7,000 more per capita than any other nation in the world, something had to be done. The health care act may be the solution.

Fifty Shades of Grey” has become the fastest-selling adult paperback novel to sell one million print copies. It has broken the weekly record for paperback sales and has become the first e-book to sell one million copies for Kindles. Combined with the other two books in the “Fifty Shades” series, the trilogy has outsold the rest of the top 50 by roughly two to one. Author E.L. James, who started the series as a “Twilight” fan fiction online, will be attending next week’s San Diego Comic-Con, signing books on the opening day of the event. “American Psycho” author Bret Easton Ellis has shown interest in adapting the book for the screen, directing, and perhaps casting such a film. (Whether he is joking — he is a satirist after all — remains to be seen.) I first encountered “Fifty Shades” when it was prominently displayed in the front window in Waterstones, a British book retailer. Its grey and blue covers under the heavy artificial light caught my attention, and with what I’d heard about its popularity — I knew people, people who never read, who were picking this up — I thought I too might pick it up sometime down the road, even though I had no idea what it was about. My second encounter, an SNL parody of an Amazon ad for the Kindle, showed me the book’s content, and I resolved not to pick it up: showcasing the SNL ladies surprised by family on Mother’s Day, caught in the act of masturbating to “Fifty Shades.” The punch line of the video, of course, reiterates the sexual nature of the series. (“What’re you reading, Mom?” “They’ll never know.”) I’m all for reading for pleasure, but that seems a bit far. “Fifty Shades” marks the first time that erotic literature has been so remarkably mainstream — and remarkably best-selling — begging the question: Is our society so intellectually nulli-

fied that what sells is poorly written sex? I have no doubt that sex sells. It’s easy enough verify by looking at “Magic Mike,” or the brigade of advertisements that traipse across the television screen during prime time. I’m less worried that sex sells than I am that poorly written sex sells. If the sex in these books is what is driving up sales, I have to ask why. The romance genre is entirely dedicated to sex with a “plot.” You can even buy “porn novels.” (I have a friend of a friend who writes them.) If it’s the sex, my question is why these books, when there are so many other avenues. If it’s not the sex, my question remains the same: Why these books? While I haven’t read the entire series, I have read the first chapter, and I challenge anyone to do the same. It’s painful (not literally painful — that comes later, during the BDSM), the sentences cliched and uninviting, reiterating the old troupe of “college girl meets super attractive man she immediately physically desires ... even though she hates him.” At least other poorly written popular fiction (the “Millennium” trilogy, “The Da Vinci Code” and even “Twilight”) tells interesting stories. In 1958, Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” reached the top of the best-seller list, and if you want a book about sex, it’s difficult to find one that is more apropos. But that narrative had writing. It had characters to be hated and loved, a highly sophisticated writing style and, yes, sex. Yet while “Lolita” remains highly controversial in its subject matter and highly sexualized, it also maintains a consistent ranking among the top 100 books in lists around the world. The beauty in Nabokov’s writing allows readers to remain sympathetic to a disturbing protagonist, despite the atrocities he perpetrates against Lolita. What is it about our current culture that has shrugged off the ability to tell phenomenal writing from garbage? I don’t know, and I’d like to because maybe then we could work to correct it. Maybe then we would see the modern-day Tolkiens and Vonneguts and Hellers and Salingers in the popular arena instead of modern-day reincarnations of writers whose works have long since been forgotten.

Sarah is a junior in LAS.

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Blazing his own trail to the NBA Leonard drafted in 1st round of 2012 NBA Draft

Aldridge in the Blazers’ frontcourt. Aldridge made his first All-Star team last season. “Obviously with Portland, they have LaMarcus at the four, and I’m going to have to come in and prove myself first and foremost,” Leonard said. “But knowBY MAX TANE ing that I have an opportunity in front of me to quite ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR FOR ON-AIR possibly start or just even be a factor in games my first Black and white shirt with a red tie. The colors of year, it’s a great feeling.” Meyers Leonard’s suit, and those of the Portland Trail Portland also drafted point guard Damian Lillard Blazers. from Weber State with the No. 6 overall pick. The two After watching 10 players go will lead a rookie class on a team before him in the 2012 NBA Draft, that is entering a rebuilding stage, Portland tabbed the Robinson, Ill., going into the offseason looking for native with the 11th pick. Chicago a new head coach. native Anthony Davis led the draft “Coming in, I feel like we have a and was followed by Kentucky teampretty good group of guys, with our young talent, that is,” Leonard said. mate Michael Kidd-Gilchrist. Andre Drummond from Connecticut was the “I believe that we’ll have a chance next center taken at the No. 9 slot by to compete, and I know from my perspective, I’m going to come out Detroit, a team Leonard had worked and work as hard as I can and give out for. it my all every single time I’m on “I knew around the 10 to 15 (pick) would be my range,” Leonard said. the court.” “I thought New Orleans was a posThe Blazers added guard Will sibility at 10, but I couldn’t be more Barton from Memphis in the secMEYERS LEONARD, proud to be in the NBA and a part of First-round draft pick, Portland Trail Blazers ond round. After winning a state title in the Portland Trail Blazers.” Leonard becomes the first Illini high school, Leonard proclaimed drafted in the first round since Deron Williams and his checklist was to win a state title, get a Division I Luther Head were drafted in 2005. Dee Brown was scholarship and get drafted. selected in the second round of the 2006 NBA Draft. Only time will tell what the next empty checkbox He will partner with power forward LaMarcus will be as his NBA career begins.

“I know from my perspective, I’m going to come out and work as hard as I can and give it my all every single time I’m on the court.”

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NBA Commissioner David Stern, left, poses with former Illini Meyers Leonard, the No. 11 overall draft pick by the Portland Trail Blazers in Thursday’s NBA Draft in Newark, N.J. Leonard was the first Illini drafted in the first round since 2005.

Three Illini gymnasts miss chance at Olympic trials BY EMILY BAYCI STAFF WRITER

Sophomore Illinois gymnast C.J. Maestas, recent graduate Paul Ruggeri and volunteer assistant coach David Sender were not selected as team members or alternates to the 2012 U.S. men’s gymnastics team for the London Olympics. None of the Illinois gymnasts or coaches responded to requests for interviews Sunday. The five-member team and three alternates were announced to the gymnasts Sunday morning. The official announcement will take place Sunday night at the conclusion of the women’s competition. Danell Leyva and 2012 U.S. national champion John Orozco were automatically named to the fiveman squad after the Olympic Trials on Saturday night. 2008 Olympic veteran Jonathan Horton, Michigan junior Sam Mikulak and Oklahoma junior Jake Dalton were the final three gymnasts named to the team. The team was selected based on athletes’ performances at the trials

and Visa Championships. The selection committee also looked at athletes’ international and domestic competition history, physical fitness, start and execution values and overall performance. Ruggeri said on Saturday night that he was hoping to make the team as an alternate. “If they want me on the team, then they’re going to put me on there,” Ruggeri said. “If not, then it’s not meant to be.” He hit his past 18 routines during the two days of trials and the second day of Visa Championships. He ended sixth in the all-around and third on high bar and floor. Maestas finished seventh in the allaround and fourth on the rings. Sender finished 14th overall, ahead of only Mikulak, who did not finish the competition due to injury and was still named to the Olympic team. “I’m so pleased with my performance and I’m happy to know it’s over,” Maestas said on Saturday night. “It’s a relief to be done with every-

thing. This was a very strenuous and nerve-wracking competition.” Ruggeri thought he and Maestas would have complemented each other well as alternates. He said that the committee might decide to select specialists as alternates, though, which it did with pommel horse specialist Alex Naddour and floor and vault specialist Steven Legendre. In previous interviews, Ruggeri had been unsure on what his future plans entailed, not knowing if he would continue to compete, join Cirque du Soleil or return to school. “I am proud of myself for making it this far and doing this well,” Ruggeri said on Saturday night. Sender plans to return to veterinary school at Illinois, where he had taken a year off. Maestas has three more years of eligibility on the Illinois collegiate team. “We are very proud of our guys and how they performed,” Illinois assistant coach Daniel Ribeiro said Saturday night. “They represented Illinois well.”

Illini represent a variety of countries at Olympics The Olympic colors will include some orange and blue in this years summer games in London. Recent graduate Andrew Riley qualified for his first Olympic games for the Jamaican team on Sunday in the 110-meter hurdles. After finishing first in the semi-finals of the Olympic Trials on Saturday with a time of 13.36, Riley finished second in the finals to clinch his spot on the team. His finals time of 13.19 is his personal best in the 110 hurdles. For the Canadian women’s track team, two former Illini, Peredita Felicien and Nikkita Holder, were competing for open spots in the 100-meter hurdles. Felicien, who is a two-time Olympian, had a false start in the finals and was eliminated from making the team a third time. Racing out of protest she finished third. Her disqualification, though, made it so Holder, who finished fourth, could take her spot on the team. Holder is a 2010 graduate, and this will be her first Olympic games. Champaign native and Auburn graduate Tyler McGill qualified for the U.S. swimming team Sunday. The 12-time All-American finished second in the 100-meter butterfly with a time of 51.87, placing him fifth in the world rankings. Other Illini that will be making the trip to London include Emily Zurrer, 2008 graduate, for Canada soccer; Gia Lewis-Smallwood, 2001 graduate, for USA discus; Robert Archibald, 2002 graduate for the Great Britain basketball team; and Tonja-Buford Bailey, Illinois women’s track and field coach, will coach USA sprinters and hurdlers.

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living at home, she was forced to transfer to the public school from her “You’re not going to believe this college prep school because she was girl,” said Marty Morse, her coach too far behind in credits. During her junior year at the public school was at Illinois. None of those around her can the first time she was asked to play quite grasp everything this woman wheelchair soccer, and she turned has done, not her past coaches, nei- that down as fast as she won her hunther the athletes she’s trained nor dreds of races. friends she had while growing up. All she had known of participating Simply listing all of her achieve- in sports before was being the scorements in minimal detail would fill keeper. Eventually, after she’d been volumes of books. She has won so asked enough, she gave in to playmany races around the world that ing the soccer game, and what she she cannot even remember which found was completely unexpected. races she’s done or even if she won People were into the game like noththem. She’s dined with presidents ing she had ever seen before. They of the U.S. and even met those of were banging their chairs, and peoother countries. ple were flying, Driscoll said. What’s more is that after all of After that, she had been introit, she remains a figure as humbled duced to a different world, and there as any. was no turning back. After graduating high school, Jean Driscoll, born and raised in Milwaukee, Wis., with spinal bifida she began her nursing studies at and a cleft pallet, was told from as the University of Wisconsin at Milearly as she could remember what waukee, where she was discovered she couldn’t do: walk, play, run, par- playing basketball by Brad Hedticipate or any other rick, the current slew of action verbs. director of DisShe was never going ability Resources to be normal, or go and Educational to a normal school Services (DRES) or walk normally, or at Illinois and forlive on her own like mer athletic director of wheelchair a normal person. “One of the things sports. From there, that has been a fire Driscoll transin my belly is that ferred to the Unias a youngster, versity of Illinois. “The first thing there were limithat struck me was tations constanther attention to ly being placed on me,” Driscoll said. detail,” Morse said. Fortunately, she In the basketwasn’t normal. She ball offseason, the was extraordinary. athletes would do At home, her partrack to stay in ents treated her no shape, and that’s differently than when, during her four other sibher senior year, Jean Driscoll , lings. If she wanted Morse told Driscoll something, she had Eight-time Boston Marathon winner she didn’t have a to work and comchoice, and she was going to do a marpete for it, even though she had feet turned out to athon. Like she did in high school the side and below-the-knee braces when offered to play a game of socthat creaked with each small step. cer, she outright refused. “Being one of five, being competi“I did not want to do a marathon,” tive, starts when you come out of the Driscoll said. “After two years to get womb,” Driscoll joked. “You’re fight- my coach off my back, and just like ing for attention, you’re fighting for that kid back in high school, I said I would do one marathon. I did the Chiice cream.” While she was in high school, cago Marathon in ’89, and I ended up Driscoll dislocated her hip after going fast enough to qualify for the taking too sharp of a turn on her Boston Marathon.” She qualified, but she still didn’t new 10-speed bicycle. Even after multiple surgeries caused her to want to go. Not after the searing blisspend a year living at home, doctors ters that her second-place finish in couldn’t figure out how to heal her. the Chicago Marathon left her hands. She was going to have to start using But she did it, and she won, breaking the world record for that race. She a wheelchair. Following her year off of school would go on to win the Boston MaraBY RYAN WEBER

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“Being one of five, being competitive starts when you come out of the womb,” Driscoll joked. “You’re fighting for attention, you’re fighting for ice cream.”

thon six consecutive times after that race, breaking her record each time. She won it again a few years later. Over the next decade, Driscoll would go on to win more races than she had ever imagined. She was touring the world constantly, being opened to so many perspectives in the world she never knew existed, she said. Not only that, but she is a member of several halls of fame, with her most recent induction into the Olympic Hall of Fame in May. Through it all, Driscoll said that she is just as proud to have been an Illini athlete as she was to wearing USA while she represented her country at the Paralympics in Barcelona, Atlanta and Sidney. “I will always be proud of this place,” Jean said of her alma mater One of her best memories as an athlete, though, was winning the silver medal in Atlanta in 1996. “When they announced my name, 80,000 people stood up and cheered, and that was one of my proudest moments.” In 2000 when she received the last medal awarded before the closing ceremonies began, Driscoll decided it was time to retire because she had lost the fire she’d had to train four or five hours a day. Later that year, Joni Earackson Tada, founder of Wheels for the World, an organization founded in 1994 that collects used wheelchairs and has them restored so they can be given to people in developing nations, called Driscoll, asking her if she would go to Ghana. Characteristically, Driscoll declined, until Tada had prodded her enough for four months. Ask Driscoll enough times, and she will probably say yes. She packed her bags and flew into the African country in 2001 and was met by a sight for which she was not ready. “When I got to the stadium, I expected people to be on crutches, and I thought a lucky few would have wheelchairs, but I was completely unprepared for the folks who crawled two to three blocks to the stadium on their hands and knees,” Driscoll said. “They had sandals on their hands and calluses on their knees.” Driscoll spent a week in the country, and returned again in 2002 and 2003. When she arrived in 2003, she brought the promise of bringing back eight promising athletes to train for the Paralympics in Champaign, backed by $62,000 from Rotary National and the Champaign area Rotary Clubs. One of those selected was Rafael Botsyo Nkegbe, a man who would later be the first male to represent his country in the Para-

Editor’s note: June 23 marked the 40-year anniversary of the passing of Title IX, a resolution that sought to stop gender discrimination in educational activities; athletics was one of those programs most affected. In honor of the 40-year anniversary, The Daily Illini is recognizing the athletes that have forwarded female athletics in the wake of Title IX’s passing. The Daily Illini summer staff sat down and sifted through a list of more than 30 nominees to name and order the top 9 female athletes of the past 40 years in terms of cultivating excellence for women’s sports at Illinois.

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Jean Driscoll ranks third in our countdown of the top nine female athletes. lympics in 2004, and he is forever grateful for the opportunity. Her advice to him has been endless: “Rafael, I am helping you as an individual, but you are more than an individual. You are representing Ghana.” “God has given everybody talent, and that talent is meant for others. You have been given something, and you have to give it back,” Nkegbe said of what he believes his life mission to be.

Driscoll continues to be an inspiration to people around the world, and she now serves as the chief advancement officer in College of AHS. “You get to a point where you forget you have a disability,” Driscoll said looking at her wheelchair. Albeit she is now retired from racing, she doesn’t show any signs of leaving the athletic world altogether. She may not be able to, either. “Sports rescued me,” Driscoll said.

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wasn’t yet 16, but was expected to make the Olympics, faced with the n 1975, when Nancy Thies Mar- task of doing so on her own. It wasn’t shall enrolled at the Universi- going to work that way. ty of Illinois, women’s college For her junior year of high school, sports were mostly about participa- she decided to move away from her tion. Most Illini women athletes had family and community to Eugene for only a couple years of experience at the sake of chasing a dream she had these sports, and few trained with already achieved. Marshall said she the intensity that one would need knew she would not make it back to today to become a Big Ten athlete. the Olympics if she continued any And so it was Marshall, an Olym- longer without a coach. What she pic veteran, nationally renowned hadn’t realized was how far away gymnast and Urbana native, who that plane to Oregon would take her. showed Illinois women’s sports what Marshall left behind a gym full excellence looked like. of friends and peers whom she had Marshall spent her middle school come to know and enjoyed training days waking up for gymnastics with. Also gone was the support of training at 6 a.m., working out until the Champaign-Urbana community, school started and then training which had raised her and fervently after school until 10 p.m. She was supported her. Most crucial, howevunder the tutelage of Dick Mulvihill, er, was the loss of her family. one of the country’s best gymnastics “I think that I had such a stark concoaches at the time. Mulvihill had trast between when I was at home sent one gymnast to the 1964 Olym- and had this kinda balanced place to pics and three to the 1968 Olympics. go home to. ... My folks worked really Marshall, as a 14-year-old, was one hard at just making it a normal life,” of two from the program to make Marshall said. “But when I came out the 1972 Olympics in Munich, for to Oregon, I didn’t have any of that.” which Marshall said she was “the She lived in a house with six or sixth person on a six-woman team.” seven other gymnasts, she said, and Still, not bad for someone who had one housemother. She was the oldest in the group. Without the balance yet to attend a day of high school. She was born into a practically her family provided, Marshall develperfect scenario for her to make oped disordered eating habits, she the leap to become an Olympian. She said, and felt like she was entering gave a majority of a “dark, black the credit to Mulhole.” vihill for forging After one her into a worldyear in Eugene, class athlete. Her Marshall and parents, Dick and her family Marilyn, put in reached the copious efforts to decision for keep Marshall’s her to return successes, failto Urbana. ures and journeys She said that in perspective. it was a tough At the games, decision for she took home her family to no medals, and make because Team USA placed enc ou rag i ng NANCY THIES MARSHALL, fourth, which, her to return Olympian while not podimeant closing the door on her um-worthy success, was the best the Americans Olympic hopes. had fared in Olympic women’s gymThat summer, Marshall moved nastics competition. back to Urbana and, over the course Marshall was a 15-year-old Olym- of her senior year, righted her eatpic veteran on the verge of becoming ing habits, and rediscovered home. one of the world’s premier gymnasts Marshall decided to enroll at Illiwhen Mulvihill married Marshall’s nois and help the gymnastics team Olympic teammate Linda Matheny in its first season as a varsity sport. and moved to Eugene, Ore., to start a “There just was something about national gymnastics program. feeling like my community had With Marshall having reached the helped me get to the Olympic games crest of athletic performance, the and there was something that I wantforce that pushed her up that moun- ed to give back,” she said. At Illinois, Marshall never lost an tain was suddenly on the other side all-around competition in the regular of the Rockies. Marshall coached herself. She season and was an All-American on BY ELIOT SILL

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“There just was something about feeling like my community had helped me get to the Olympic games and there was something that I wanted to give back.”

40 YEARS OF THE RIGHT TO PLAY the uneven bars. She won nine conference titles and seven regional titles. After being coached by Mulvihill for so many years, she said, Member of 1972 Olympic team the coaches at Illinois essentially All-American on uneven bars allowed her to be her own coach. Winner of nine Big Ten titles Injuries at the end of her sophomore year forced her to take a Illinois Female Athlete of the Year, 1977 long break from competing, during which NBC offered her a position as a color analyst for international women’s gymnastics competition despite her being a college junior. She accepted and worked on NBC’s broadcast team for over seven years. She then worked with the board of the USGA to promote athlete wellness. She worked both as an analyst on-air and a board member behind the scenes to forward the sport of women’s gymnastics, working on two major book projects, “Women Who Compete” and “The Athlete Wellness Book,” to try and forward not only women’s athletics, but healthy practices for athletes everywhere. “The logical next step for me was to give back in a way that gave voice to the athletes who were struggling and who didn’t know how to manage this journey that they were on,” Marshall said. “And I got to be in some places where my voice got to be heard and I felt like that was an important place for me to be in.” In that time, she had married her husband, Charles Marshall, moved to Salem, Ore., and started a family. In an email, her youngest son, John, who will be entering his senior year of high school in August, said Marshall was “the best mom I could ask for.” “She’s our encourager, counselor and advisor,” he said. “She’s our paper editor and game-day chauffeur and our loudest cheerleader. She’s my cereal provider and the one who makes me homemade applesauce. ... The strongest woman of God I’ve ever known.” She keeps in contact with the Illinois program today, albeit distantly. She sent a letter to the team this past year, enforcing the idea that contributions to a gymnastics PHOTO COURTESY OF ILLINOIS SPORTS INFORMATION program such as Illinois’ are part of Nancy Thies Marshall was an Olympian before even having attended high school. something greater, quoting author She helped the Illinois women’s gymnastics team in its first year as a varsity sport Donald Miller and saying the gym- and never lost an all-around competition in the regular season for Illinois. nasts were trees in a story about a forest. Marshall has deep roots in well-being or individual well-being, without hardship, was a success. that metaphorical forest, as evi- you’ll be able to give them what they “It taught me so much and opened denced by her winning the first-ever deserve and make the experience a up so many doors, and I with years Illinois Female Athlete of the Year great one,” Illinois women’s gymnas- learned to appreciate — the things award in 1977. Marshall’s effect on tics head coach Kim Landrus said. that when I actually walked through Marshall said you can define ath- them and thought I was a failure — the program, and the sport of womletic success by revisiting an athlete those were probably the most signifien’s gymnastics, is still felt today. “If you’re able to find that bal- 20 years after their career. Marshall cant things in terms of preparing me ance, whether it’s student-athlete thought that her career, though not for life as an adult,” she said.

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he murmurs of skepticism originated in Champaign, progressing sporadically throughout the country. When Wayne Angel resigned after six seasons as head coach of the Illinois men’s track and field team in November of 2009, he left a vacancy for the roles of head coach and sprinting coach. Five-year assistant coach Mike Turk was soon hired as Angel’s replacement, and the Illini’s new interim head coach negotiated with thenathletic director Ron Guenther that the volunteer sprint coaches that worked with Angel be let go, leaving the position of sprinting and hurdles coach wide open. Head women’s track and field coach and former Illinois standout Tonja Buford-Bailey was instated as the new coach the next day. Turk said hiring Buford-Bailey was an administrative idea that he was “absolutely comfortable with.” At the time of the hire, Andrew Riley was a sophomore who showed promise in the 60-meter and 110-meter hurdles. Angel’s resignation in the middle of the track season was inconvenient for many involved, including Riley. He had seen Buford-Bailey’s poster hanging at the indoor track located in the University Armory, but wasn’t familiar with Buford-Bailey the athlete. He then took to the Internet to gain a more extensive understanding of what his new coach had accomplished during her days as an athlete. Riley soon learned that his new coach was the most decorated athlete in Illinois history. Buford-Bailey has won more titles than any other Illinois athlete, male or female, and holds more titles than any other student-athlete in the history of the Big Ten. In 1992, she was an NCAA champion in the 400-meter hurdles, and she was named Big Ten Athlete of the Year in all four years of her college career. Not to mention that, along with her 10 All-America accolades, Buford-Bailey appeared in three Olympics, becoming the first female Illini athlete to win an Olympic medal when she claimed the bronze medal in the 400-meter hurdles at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. “She was a stud,” Riley said. But for other members of the men’s sprinters and hurdlers, Buford-Bailey’s status as a woman and a women’s coach caused some to be reluctant in buying what she was selling. “Some of the guys weren’t believers right away,” Riley said. “A lot of people were skeptics. She had never coached guys before. I think a lot of guys were worried about that and about the direction they wanted to be going.” “I heard that some of the guys weren’t so sure about having me coach them,” Buford-Bailey said. “That happened more often than I knew it was going on. ... But I did find out that a lot of them were like, ‘I don’t know about this. I can’t have a woman coach me.’ Some of them were flat-out, ‘I can’t have a woman coach me.’” Turk said that while some of the men’s sprinters and hurdlers were indeed hesitant to accept Buford-Bailey as their coach, he likened the situation to that of a substitute filling in for the regular professor. “There were some issues that I had to address pretty quickly when we first put that together, and there were some — not major issues — but there certainly were some problems,” Turk said. “And I don’t think it’s anything unusual. ... Young adults and teenagers, what’s the first thing they’re going to do? They’re going to test boundaries ... as far as what they can get away with. Being accountable, being on time and doing what they’re supposed to do. Simple stuff like that.” Riley said the quality workouts Buford-Bailey put her new athletes through legitimized her in his eyes. “I’ve been through a lot of coaches, and I know when a

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More titles than any Illinois athlete, male or female More titles than any other student-athlete in the Big Ten Four-time Big Ten athlete of the year First female Illini athlete to win an Olympic medal

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workout is good or a workout is bad,” Riley said. “My high school coach was a very good coach. When Tonja started taking over and started giving me workouts, I obviously knew back then that it was good stuff that was going to help me in the end.” Riley and his teammates began to see improvements in their times and started setting personal bests. Buford-Bailey said she didn’t put much stock into the men’s sprinters and hurdlers reluctance to work with her because she felt confident she would be able to help them improve. “My son, his first-ever baseball coach was a female. So for him, he has that. And he knows I’m a coach, and he sees me coaching men, so I think for him it wouldn’t be an odd thing if he showed up for basketball and his coach was a female,” Buford-Bailey said. “But I think for most of those boys, they hadn’t experienced it, hadn’t seen it and probably didn’t trust it.” Buford-Bailey was slowly convincing her team that she could succeed at coaching men, but the doubters weren’t completely eliminated. Buford-Bailey and Riley both said coaches and teams from around the nation denounced Riley, who was quickly gaining national recognition, because his coach was a woman. “I didn’t care because I knew I could coach and that he was going to be fine,” Buford-Bailey said. “But that was three years ago. A lot has changed since then.” By the end of his sophomore year, Riley was a national champion in the 110-meter hurdles. He finished his collegiate career as a four-time NCAA Champion, 12-time AllAmerican, two-time Dike Eddleman Award winner, twotime Big Ten Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year winner and the owner of school records in the 60 meters, 60-meter hurdles, 100 meters, 110-meter hurdles and 4x100-meter relay. Riley credited much of his success to working with Buford-Bailey. “A lot of our teammates were worried, but after the first couple of track meets they started to see their times go down, and they started to do whatever she said,” Riley said. “She says A, I do A. She says B, I do B. ... And after six months I was an NCAA champion. So we shut those guys up.”

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13 On Saturday, Riley secured a spot on the Jamaican Olympic team. He qualified for the second-place spot in the 110-meter hurdles with a career-best time of 13.19 seconds. Buford-Bailey was in Eugene, Ore., working with Team USA, constantly refreshing her computer for the results. But the results weren’t coming in. “I was in a straight panic,” Buford-Bailey said. “I just really wanted it for him and I was really kind of going crazy and hoping and praying that when it finally refreshed that he would be in the top three.” Riley’s agent finally called five minutes after the race to alert her of the news. “This was going to be the ultimate notch, and the next step is getting in the fi nals,” Buford-Bailey said. “With everything you have to take one step at a time. At this point, that was making the top three and making the team.” When asked what type of potential she saw in Riley when she fi rst started coaching him, Buford-Bailey said that her expectations were through the roof. “It’s not a big surprise,” she said. “He’s got the ability, he’s got the mindset and he’s just a really good kid to coach. And from that vantage point, he was way more serious and way more focused and dedicated than your average sophomore in college. But even with the whole coaching change, he was one of the ones who embraced it the fastest. He didn’t worry about this woman coaching him. So I knew right away that he showed maturity.” “She’s like my mother,” Riley said of Buford-Bailey. “I grew up mostly close to my mother, so I’m a motherson guy. She’s been through the system of collegiate and pro. She knows all of the ups and downs. Sometimes she’s more passionate emotionally than other guys who, even if your body’s tired or you stay up late at night, they’ll try to push you through. But if you go to her and tell her you’re not feeling good, she might shut you down for the day and then say come back fresh tomorrow to workout. A lot of guys would say, ‘Go kill it,’ you know? ‘Tough it out.’ And I think that might make the difference over the years. She has been that type of person to me.”

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